April 5, 2020
Week 3: New Selection of $1.99 Ebooks!
by Melville House
It’s week three of the $1.99 ebook sale and we have a new selection of titles for you—including The 100% Solution, which came out just last week, and Health Justice Now, a particularly timely look at single-payer healthcare.
The 100% Solution: A Plan for Solving Climate Change
by Solomon Goldstein-Rose
Goldstein-Rose, the youngest Massachusetts state representative in recent years, makes clear what must happen to achieve negative emissions before we reach the point of no return.
Health Justice Now: Single Payer and What Comes Next
by Timothy Faust
In Health Justice Now, Timothy Faust explains what single payer is, why we don’t yet have it, and how it can be won. (Particularly timely!)
Viking Economics: What the Scandinavians Got Right—And How We Can, Too
by George Lakey
Lakey explores the inner workings of the Nordic economies that boast the world’s happiest, most productive workers, and explains how we, too, can embrace equality in our economic policy. Perhaps the most fun economics book you’ve ever read.
The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld
by Jamie Bartlett
Beyond the familiar online world that most of us inhabit—a world of Google, Facebook, and Twitter—lies a vast and often hidden network. An unprecedented, eye-opening look at a world that doesn’t want to be known.
ANTIFA: The Anti-Facist Handbook
by Mark Bray
Based on interviews with anti-fascists from around the world, Antifa details the history of the movement and the philosophy behind it, offering insight into the growing but little-understood resistance fighting back against fascism in all its guises.
My Autobiography
by Charlie Chaplin
Chaplin’s heartfelt and hilarious autobiography tells the story of his childhood, the challenge of identifying and perfecting his talent, his subsequent film career and worldwide celebrity.
The Climate Report
by The U.S. Global Change Research Program
To hide its dramatic findings, the government released its mandated Climate Assessment Report on Black Friday while everyone was out shopping. Melville House rushed the report into print—including all its charts, graphs, and illustrations—to broadcast its meticulous and devastating findings about the causes and impact of global warming.
Witches: The Transformative Power of Women Working Together
by Sam George-Allen
A celebration of the revolutionary potential of women working with other women, and a powerful statement about myths like the “cool girl” or the “catty workplace.”
How We Win: A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning
by George Lakey
A lifetime of activist experience informs this playbook for building and conducting nonviolent direct action campaigns — teaching us how to achieve real progressive change.
The Dead
by James Joyce
Often cited as the best work of short fiction ever written, Joyce’s elegant story details a New Year’s Eve gathering in Dublin that is so evocative and beautiful that it prompts the protagonist’s wife to make a shocking revelation to her husband.
Encyclical on Climate Change and Inequality: On Care For Our Common Home
by Pope Francis
The complete text of the landmark encyclical letter from Pope Francis that, as Time magazine reported, “rocked the international community.”
BONUS! How to Do Nothing and The Revisionaries are on sale for $4.99!
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
by Jenny Odell
Far from the simple anti-technology screed, or the back-to-nature meditation we read so often, How to do Nothing is an action plan for thinking outside of capitalist narratives of efficiency and techno-determinism.
The Revisionaries
by A. R. Moxon
A wildly imaginative, masterfully rendered, and suspenseful tale of one man trying to differentiate between reality and fantasy in order to find the source of his faith. It will summon to mind the bold outlandishness stylishness of Thomas Pynchon, Margaret Atwood, and Alan Moore—while being unlike anything that’s come before.